“Evans’ watercolor illustrations in Not Finished Yet: Trusting God with All My Feelings are not just beautiful; they are powerful tools that bring Wren’s emotions to life. The delicate and expressive artwork creates a visual connection that resonates with readers of all ages, making the story more relatable and the reading experience more immersive.” —Children’s Book Review
“What a stunning, delightful book! Sharon Garlough Brown’s gentle and elegant storytelling is accompanied by the gorgeous and stirring illustrations by Jessica Linn Evans. Not Finished Yet is prayer in picture book form. What a gift to young readers and the adults who love them. Readers of Glenys Nellist and Crystal Bowman will want to have a copy for their shelf.” —Susie Finkbeiner, author of Stories That Bind Us
“Sharon Garlough Brown has once again proved her genius as storyteller and teacher. In the new picture book Not Finished Yet, Sharon expands our understanding of prayer. Wren, the young girl in the story, and her grandmother paint their feelings and their prayers in living color on large canvases. When Wren’s painting becomes a total mess, her grandmother listens to Wren’s misery and helps her to transform her canvas into a visual lament. This is a lovely book―both beautiful and full of love. Each page is a canvas for the wonderful and intricate watercolors of artist Jessica Linn Evans. Each face is a canvas for the emotions and longings of the characters. Together, the story and the pictures expand our image of a loving God who wants to hear and see all our thoughts and feelings―even the messy ones. Not Finished Yet is a finished little masterpiece for both children and adults to savor.” —Sybil MacBeth, author of the Praying in Color: Drawing a New Path to God series
“With her signature sensitivity and spiritual insight, Sharon Garlough Brown has penned a tender children’s book that is sure to become a classic. Not Finished Yet helps readers (of all ages) acknowledge and express their unwelcome feelings of disappointment. This beautifully illustrated book is a treasure that I’m eager to share with my grandchildren.” — Lynn Austin, author of All My Secrets
“We can’t give what we don’t have. No one knows this―nor fears this―more than parents. Thankfully, with Not Finished Yet, Sharon Garlough Brown and Jessica Linn Evans have offered us a gift that provides as much for us parents as it does for our children. It is a gift that our children―and as it turns out, we adults―so desperately need. For indeed, we each need to be invited to name all that we feel in the presence of the God who is longing to hear it―and be lovingly transformed as we do. Read this story to your children. Read this story to yourself. And when you do, allow yourself to be captivated by the God who is in the business of creating beauty and goodness in the places we might least expect to find it.” — Curt Thompson, psychiatrist and author of The Soul of Desire and The Deepest Place
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